Words Matter

Name of Book: The Right Word

Author: Jen Bryant, illustrated by Melissa Sweet

Copyright: 2014

Genre: Biography of Peter mark Roget, history

Character Traits: Hard Worker, organized, good planner, thinker

Why It’s Surprising: He made lists of everything!

Why Words Matter (our list):

Communicates meaning

Gives Voice

Describes

Explains

Persuades

Misleads, betrays

Names, Classifies

Informs

Builds bridges

Relational

Makes sense of reality

Specifies

Communicates Emotion: sad, funny, kind, weird, cool, nice (Yes, another list!)

For ages: 8 and up

Reasons for stars: The pictures were entertaining. There was an interesting list for everything. Roget made lists and didn’t play video games!